[wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated

[Sean Hall]

You have to specify the guid at compile time, you can't use Variables.
This is to keep the window as small as possible, after all this is
unelevated code launching an elevated process without a UAC prompt.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Huy Doan <hdoan at vmware.com> wrote:

> One more question on this. How can I pass the PREV-BUNDLE-ID? It tried to
> make it a Burn variable and set in during the DetectRelatedBundle event but
> it does not work. Below is the portion of the log.
>
> [13A0:0DCC][2016-07-14T16:16:14]i600: LaunchApprovedExe begin, id:
> PreviousVersion
> [0404:01C0][2016-07-14T16:16:14]i601: Searching registry for approved exe
> path, key:
> SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{[RelatedBundleId]},
> value: 'BundleCachePath', win64: no
> [0404:01C0][2016-07-14T16:16:14]e000: Error 0x80070002: Failed to open the
> registry key for the approved exe path.
> [13A0:0DCC][2016-07-14T16:16:14]i699: LaunchApprovedExe complete, result:
> 0x80070002, processId: 0
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Huy Doan
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 3:37 PM
> To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
>
> I think that's something I'm looking for :D. I had an insight from Rob's
> hint but was not quite sure how to implement it. Your solution was
> something I pictured in mind. Thank you so much, Sean.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
> Of Sean Hall
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 3:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
>
> The old bootstrapper is a bundle that's already installed, right?  So it
> should be in the package cache, which is a secure location for
> ApprovedExeForElevation.  I'm not saying that it's not a pain to do it this
> way, but it is possible to manually launch the old bootstrapper elevated
> without showing multiple UAC prompts.
>
> <ApprovedExeForElevation Id="PreviousVersion"
> Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{PREV-BUNDLE-ID}"
> Value="BundleCachePath" />
>
> Engine.LaunchApprovedExe(hWnd, L"PreviousVersion", L"/repair", 0)
>
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, you're not going to get that to work as is. But it might be a
> > nice thing to improve *in* Burn. Burn already repairs related bundles
> > in other scenarios. Might be interesting to enhance for upgrade rollback.
> >
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> > From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On
> > Behalf Of Huy Doan
> > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:57 PM
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> > Subject: Re: [wix-users] Run Burn Boostrapper or the MBA Elevated
> >
> > I understand and Rob Mensching has had similar answers to many of
> > these questions.
> >
> > The problem I am encountering is when I do an upgrade, I hit cancel
> > and everything rolls back. Then I launch the old bootstrapper silently
> > to repair to make sure that the system is stable after a fail upgrade.
> > The old bootstrapper at launching asks to be elevated one more time
> > and I don't want the UAC prompt to appear in this scenario. Therefore
> > I have tried to elevate the BA or the bootstrapper so when the BA
> > launch the old bootstrapper, the prompt will not appear.
> >
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